What Is Your State Hungry For? Top Food Searches of 2015

Posted on: January 1, 2016

How much time each day do you spend thinking about food? The answer to that might surprise you. According to the Daily Mail, women spend over 44 minutes each day thinking about food while men spend about 39 minutes each day thinking about food. Let's do a little math here. That averages out to 41.5 minutes per day per person, 4.84 hours per week, and 251.68 hours per year... spent thinking about food.

At Jag's Steak and Seafood, we love food. In fact, we can't get enough of it. We live for fresh seafood, Certified Angus Beef, and handcrafted side dishes that just won't stop. But what foods do other people spend their 41.5 minutes a day thinking about? We had to find out. So here are the top food searches (on Google) during 2015*.

Read on to see the top 3 food searches and additional information for each state.

California

1. Yogurtland (frozen yogurt) - 995,500 searches per year; tied with Krispy Kreme2. Boiling Crab - 814,000 searches per year; a seafood restaurant is the number one result but this could also apply individuals looking for info on how to boil a crab3. Sushi - 665,500 searches per year; tied with Quinoa

*How was this data collected?This data was collected using Google AdWords' Keyword Planner. For each state, we looked at the "food category" searches during 2015. (Only data for January - November, 2015 was available at the time this information was collected meaning yearly search data is based on an 11 month period). Search terms had to be "food centric" such as a restaurant, food item, or recipe; for example, grocery stores were not eligible for inclusion. Search terms are displayed here exactly as they appeared in the Keyword Planner.